ABSTRACT
Different approaches have been used for tidal turbines. Examples of 1-way approaches are the works of Bir et al. (2011), who used blade-resolved Computational Fluid Dynamics model (CFD) to obtain loads that were then used to design a structural solution, and Grogan et al (2013) who proposed a model based on the blade element momentum (BEM) method as an input for beamand shell-based structural models. Wang (2015) shows a 1-way CFD-FEM model of a wind turbine in which the loads are obtained from the CFD as a pressure field and applied to the FEM.
